Machine for weaving cross-wires in wire fences.



No. 650,522. Pate n ted May 29.1900.

J. A. SHELLENBEBGER. MACHINE FOR WEAVING CROSS WIRES IN WIRE FENCES.

(Application filed Nov. 21, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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JOSEPH A. SHELLENBERGER, OF VILlilSOA, 'IOVVA.

MACHINE FOR WEAVING CROSS-WIRES IN WIRE FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 650,522, dated May 29, 1900.

Application filed November 21, 1899. Serial No. 737,774- (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, JOSEPH A. SHELLEN- BERGER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Villisca, Montgomery county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FencelVeaving Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for weaving cross-wires in wire fences.

My invention consists in the combination of a traveling frame, a Winding-frame hinged thereto, a hand-operated sprocket-wheel on said winding-frame, a hand-operated latch on said winding-frame and arranged to engage at times and stop said sprocket-wheel, a winding-hub mounted for rotation in and transversely of one end of said winding-frame, and slotted from its periphery beyond its center, a sprocket-wheel on said winding-hub, a pair of tightening and guiding sprocket-Wheels on the winding-frame, a sprocket-chain run around the hand-operated sprocket-wheel and the tightening and guiding sprocket-wheels and engaging and reversely operating the sprocket-wheel on the winding-hub, and a slotted extension on the forward end of the winding-frame.

My invention consists, further, in the construction, arrangement, and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my machine. Fig. 2 is a plan of my machine. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the winder detached from the frame.

In the construction of the machine as shown the numeral 10 designates a spacing-frame, preferably made of angle-irons bolted together and provided with loops arranged to suspend it from one or another or all of the horizontal strand-wires of a fence and maintain said wires at given and desirable distances of separation, and at the same time support the frame. A sliding frame 10 is mounted between and slidingly engages the inner edges of the vertical side bars of the frame 10, and a rod or pipe 11 is mounted vertically in and centrally of the sliding frame 10 and. is circular in cross-section. A winding-frame 12 is provided, preferably made of cast metal and formed with an arm 13, ter-.

minating in a vertical bearing 14, arranged and so shaped as to receive and pivot upon form two arms 16 17, and a tubular hub-- bearing 18 is formed on the frame concentric with the inner end of the slot or bifurcation therein and projects laterally therefrom par allel with but to a less distance than the supporting-arm 13. The hub-bearing 18 is -provided with an oil-hole 19 in the top of its central portion. A winding-hub 20, preferably formed of cast metal and slotted from a point on its periphery to a point beyond its center, is mounted for rotation in the hub-bearing 18, and a sprocket-wheel 21 is formed on one endof said hub and is slotted coincident with the bifurcation of the forward end of the winding frame. The outer face of the sprocket-wheel 21 and end of the hub adjacent thereto is concaved and a ring 22, slotted coincident therewith, is mounted on and incloses the said outer face of the wheel. (See dotted lines in Fig. 1.) A winding-collar 23 is provided and formed as a yoke, with its arms extending radially, spaced apart and in divergent planes, and said collar is mounted on the end of the hub 20,opposite the sprocketwheel 21, and secured thereto by means of a bolt 24, traversing the collar and hub and crossing the bifurcation or slot of said hub. A machine-bolt 25 is mounted rigidly in and extends horizontally through the windingframe parallel with the axis of the hub 20, and a hand-operated sprocket-wheel 26 is mounted for revolution on said bolt. Ahandle or crank 27 is cast integral with and extends forwardly and radially from the outer face of the sprocket-wheel 26 and is arranged and shaped for manual actuation to revolve the wheel. A latch-lever 28 is fulcrumed at its central portion on a pin 29, vertically positioned in ears 30, one only of which is shown, cast on the frame 12 adjacent to the bolt 25, and a detent 31 is formed on and extends inwardly from the forward end of the lever. Ahole 32 is formed in the web of the wheel 26 and is arranged and so shaped as to receive the extremity of the detent at times, to the end that the wheel may be looked against revolution. A pin 33 is mounted in the frame 12, parallel with the arm 13, and a flat spring 34 is mounted on said pin and impinges at one end on the lever 28 adjacent to the detent 31, the function of the spring being to seat the detent in the hole 32 of the wheel 26. Ears 35 36 are formed on and extend upward and downward from the frame 12, and slots 37 38 are formed in said ears to receive bolts 39 4O horizontally therein. Tightening and guiding sprocket-wheels 41 42 are mounted for revolution on the bolts 39 40, and a tangent common to forward points on the peripheries of said wheels willinterseot the wheel 21. A sprocket-chain 43 is mounted fortravel on the wheels 26, 41, and 42, and engages the wheel 21 between the tightening and guiding wheels, to the end that the wheel 21 may be driven reversely to the wheel 26. A pin 44 is seated in the web of the wheel 21 and the ring 22 and extends horizontally outwardly therefrom. A bushing or tube 45 is mounted loosely on the pin 44 and is retained by the head of said pin.

In practical operation the frame 10 is mounted in a vertical position on the horizontal strand-wires of a fence, the windingframe is pivotally mounted on the pipe or rod 11 of'the slide 10, a quantity of Wire is wound upon a spool, (not shown,) and the spool is placed upon the bushing or sleeve 45 and the inside end of the wire run through the center of the wheel 21 and hub 20 and fixed to the-topstrand-wire, the frame 12 being first swung around so that the strand-wire is received within the tube and wheel. The operatorthen grasps the handle 15 and latchlever 28 with one hand, disengages thedethe hole 32 and stop the wheels.

tent 31 from the, wheel 26 by compressing the outer end of the lever toward the handle, and turns the wheel 26 by means of the crank or handle 27 with his other hand. In the turning of the wheel 26 the wheel 21 is turned reversely thereto and the wire carried around the strand-wire the desired number of times. When the desired number of convolutions of stay-wire have been laid on the strand-wire, the operator relaxes the compression of the lever 28 and permits the detent 31 to engage The operator then swings the winding-frame away from the strand-wire and moves it and the slide 10 down to another strand-wire and repeats the operation of .winding the stay-wire on the strand-wire. When the strand-wires have been successively treated, the frame 10 is moved along the strand-wires and into another position where it is desired to apply stay-wire.

Iclaim as my invention-- The combination of a traveling frame, a winding-frame hinged thereto, a hand-operated sprocket-wheel on said winding-frame, a hand-operated latch on said winding-frame and arranged to engage at times and stop said sprocket-wheel, a winding-hub mounted for rotation in and transversely of one end of said winding-frame and slotted from its periphery beyond its center, a slotted sprocketwheel on said winding-hub, a pair of guidingand tightening sprocket-wheels on said winding-frame, a sprocket-chain run around the hand-operated sprocket-wheel and tightening and guiding sprocket-wheels and engaging and reversely operating the sprocketwheel on the winding-hub, and a bifurcate extension. on the winding-frame.

, Signed by me at Villisca, Iowa, this 28th day of August, 1899;

v JOSEPH A. SHELLENBERGER.

'Witnesses:

D. H. GILLMoRE, J. S. ANDERSON. 

